Happy New Year!!! I cannot believe how little I cooked these last couple of weeks. My husband took some time off work and so I took a housewife vacation too! (Thanks to my husband for taking care of dinner so many nights. No one orders take out like you do!) It was kind of nice …
Here I Ham Again On My Own
I treat holidays like “opposite days.” Most people get the urge to jump in the kitchen during the holidays. They cook more dinners than they would normally and they bake cookies like a Keebler Elf. (Is it politically correct to still call them elves?) Me, on the other hand, gets really lazy about cooking. I …
Foodie Fun Day: bellyQ
Resolutions. Every year, I look back on my computer and read my list of goals that I made before the new year. Last year’s resolutions were probably similar to many of your own….exercise more, watch television less and do more for other people. (Okay, I didn’t get much exercise in while watching TV but I …
A Post On Wednesday
My Dear Readers. I had a post scheduled this morning about a “fun day” I had on Friday. As much as I want to share my food adventure, I want to take a couple of days and regroup my thoughts. I have feelings of guilt that while I was eating a fabulous feast, there was …
Keep The Home Fries Burning
This is the time of year that I get a lot of questions emailed to me. Easy ones like asking for simple appetizers to bring to a cocktail party. Or where do you find certain cooking items. I usually can respond quickly and accurately. (I have also been asked some freaky stuff but I’ll keep …
Italian Sausage Soup…There is no substitute
Substitute. Is it a good word or a bad word? Do you hear it and shudder or jump for joy? I started thinking about that word yesterday. It is kind of interesting that substitute is such a simple word and yet has many connotations. (Yep, that is the kind of stuff I find interesting.) For …
Understanding Garlic Bread
There are a lot of things I don’t understand…for example, maps and geography. (Or are those the same things? That is how much I don’t understand them.) Either way it is a subject matter that doesn’t click in my brain. I also don’t understand push-up bras. Why do you want to fill your bra with …
“Veruca Salt”ed Double Baked Potatoes
“Gooses! Geeses! I want my geese to lay gold eggs for Easter.” (Who knows where I am going with this one?) I was scrubbing potatoes today and all of a sudden was possessed by Veruca Salt from the 1971 movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. My original plan was just to have baked potatoes …
FLAF’s Holiday Shopping Guide 2012
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (or Hanukah or Kwanza or whatever excuse you need to be merry). I personally thought that the world really pushed the winter holidays on us a little too quickly. But now that Thanksgiving is over, I am one of those people freaking out about holiday shopping. I …
Foodie Fun Day: CHILL 2012
I officially have been going to food events for over year. And there is one consistent thread that runs through each event…my mouth waters. Whether it is the rich aromas that roam through the halls or my first view of a perfectly plated dish of food…my mouth waters. When I see the chefs walking in …